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It's Fake Fur, It's Fine

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Basically a work explicitly states that a character is wearing fake fur, to avoid upsetting any anti-fur viewers.
The main reason for this is having the glamour of fur without any of the guilt (or angry letters).
Note that simply wearing fake fur isn't enough, since that could just be for budget reasons. This requires the show clearly stating it In-Universe in some way.
In Real Life, some people claim some vintage furs they have are fake, to avoid harassment. Conversely, it is also possible to buy clothes containing real fur claiming to be faux fur, since farming certain types of animals for fur can actually be cheaper than synthetic materials. There has also been backlash against fake fur because it's a type of plastic, which has led to debates on whether it's truly better for the animals and environment. Maybe the safest choice is to just avoid both variations altogether if possible. That, or Take a Third Option by making fake fur made out of sustainable, eco-friendly, and plastic-free materials like plant fibers.
A Sub-Trope of Pretty in Mink.
Compare Fur and Loathing.
Contrast Cruella to Animals.
Compare/Contrast Live Mink Coat (fur is real, but still no animals harmed).
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When Castle's mother inherits a windfall from her New Old Flame, she grieves by going on a shopping spree. Afterwards, she tells Castle that she plans to return everything and give the money to the man's children (she was about to break up with him and he wouldn't have left it to her had he known). But since he did love her, she feels she can keep her new leopard jacket, further justifying it by assuring Castle that it's fake fur.
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An episode of White Collar mentioned that the furs being bought were fake.◊
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In Special Unit 2, Nick and Kate have to talk to a creature that's kept prisoner in an icy room. Carl the gnome gives Kate a fur coat to keep her warm, and says it's fake, but because he stole it and would not count as severe a theft.
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In a Josie and the Pussycats comic, Melody gets upset when Josie wears an outfit with a fur collar. Josie tells her that it's orlon, but Melody being Melody protests that cute little orlons shouldn't be killed for their fur.
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In Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 3, Marzipan admits she once bought a coat thinking it was made of faux fur before she learned it was made of Faux-faux fur, the furs of Faux-fauxs.
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In The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, London, acting as an animal-loving celebrity, attracts the rage of a local animal rights group after Maddie lets it slip to a reporter that London has "fox furs" in her wardrobe. It is later revealed that it was a misunderstanding; London's furs are fake but she thinks that "faux" (which rhymes dough) is pronounced fox.
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Avalon: Web of Magic: When Kara is going on her magical shopping spree, she checks to make sure that the fur on the piece of clothing she wants is fake. She's assured that it is.
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In the live action part of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, the brothers think they've struck it rich, and Luigi mentions he always wanted to buy his mother a fake fur coat.
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The Sims 2 "Glamour Life" set offered a fur coat, but stated that the furs weren't real, even in the game.
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In the last couple of decades, most Barbie outfits featuring "fur" have stated on the box that the fur is fake.
This also has purpose of not getting sued from customers who would have actually wanted real fur, and claim to be scammed when it turned out to be cheaper synthetic. Whether it's to appeal to changing sensibilities and general feelings regarding animal rights or to cover them from lawsuits is unclear, and it could easily be a convenient way to do both.
The back packaging for the 1994 Happy Holidays Barbie states that Barbie is "celebrating the holidays in style with a glorious gown of gold and faux fur!"
Though the 1996 Happy Holidays Barbie has faux fur trim, the packaging doesn't mention that despite a disclaimer that she "cannot hold muff as shown". Their website, however, calls it "luxurious white fake fur".
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Clash's bio from Jem and the Holograms (IDW) states she loves faux fur.
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Children of the Lamp: When Philipa conjures up a fur coat for herself in The Five Fakirs, she makes sure to make it out of fake fur. She later finds out that her uncle Nimrod also conjured up a fur coat for himself - except with real fur. He says he isn't bothered by it, since it's not like any animals died to make that coat.
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Although Veronica of Archie Comics wears fur a lot, often, when she says what fur it is, it's fake. This was also put in reprints of older stories, editing the older text.
In one story, Archie dreams about a Bad Future where the planet has been environmentally and ecologically devastated by unchecked pollution and waste. When he runs into Veronica, she's gushing about a new fake leopard fur coat she just bought. Archie expresses surprise that Veronica would brag about wearing fake fur, but she replies that of course it's fake, since in that world, leopards went extinct decades ago.
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In Clueless, Dionne chastises Cher for her fluffy backpack, but Cher says that it's fake.
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Parodied in Team Fortress 2. One of the cosmetic items is a fur-lined lab coat for The Medic, and the description boasts that endangered species were killed in the making of it. Even though it boasts synthetic fur.
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Duolingo: From the French course: "Ne t'inquiète pas, c'est de la fausse fourrure.'' (Don't worry, it's fake fur).
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Last Res0rt: One of Jigsaw's early outfits is lined with very fake, very lime green fur.
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The names of clothing items in Animal Crossing: New Horizons always specify that they're made of faux fur or pleather, likely because most of the characters in the game are animals.
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Parodied in League of Legends with Udyr. In his pre-2022 design, he wore an animal pelt (a bear skin by default, but would transform depending on which animal spirit he was channeling), and with his joke emote, he would relay "If PETA asks, this fur is fake."
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Penny and Aggie: On a related note, Aggie is giving fashion advice and says that wearing leather is wrong, but that wearing pleather - which looks and feels exactly like leather - is fine.
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Averted in Anastasia; in the song "Rumor in St. Petersburg," one of the men trying to sell things on the street notes that the item he swiped from the palace is "lined with real fur."
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Megatokyo spoofs this. When Seraphim shows different outfits from around the world the Russian outfit is a fur coat, hat, and muff (the fur even wraps around her wings), and she is really worried it might not be fake fur.
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In the Penn & Teller: Bullshit! episode on PETA, they make it clear that they have nothing but contempt for this trope, and consider it to be hypocrisy in its purest form. They point out while interviewing a PETA spokesman that he's wearing a (fake, they assume to give him the benefit of the doubt) leather belt, shoes and watchband, thus propagating the fashion even though his outfit didn't directly murder any animals.
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In Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Salem has a huge gambling debt to a guy (who later turned out to be a cheater), and the Spellmans are forced to work for him to pay it off. At his gambling hall, we see women wearing fur wraps. The furs are later stated to be fake when the Spellmans try to make a potion, and a hair from a fake fur is an ingredient.
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It's Fake Fur, It's Fine
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